I am about the MOST anti hand-held you can get when it comes to consoles (and if you look at my past threads, i'm like the most console fanboy there is) ... but the new mario made me go out and want a DS.
so i picked up a DS Lite yesterday and holy crap, I can tput Mario down. It's fvcking awesome. I am in love with this system. Instead of reading while I crapped today, I played Mario for like 15 minutes on the pot haha.
Seriously, for $130, it can't be beat.